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By Admin18th December 20130Asylum, Campaigns, Migration, Sheffield

“Praising Mandela but Promulgating Immigration Apartheid. Stop the Immigration Bill!”

120 people demonstrated today in Sheffield against the Immigration Bill on International Migrants Day. Protestors held a rally outside Sheffield Town Hall with speakers from the Movement for Justice, People’s Assembly, Labour Councillor Mohammed…

By Admin28th November 20130Asylum, Campaigns, Migration, Sheffield

Call out: Demonstrate Against the Immigration Bill 18th December

***stop press***Green Party leader to speak at rally Town Hall 12.30pm Join the regional demonstration against the Immigration BIll in Sheffield on December 18th, International Migrants Day. Meet at the bottom of…

By Admin14th November 20130Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

Rats in the “asylum market”: Time to cancel the COMPASS contract

On November 8 three G4S immigration detention centre officials at Brook House were found to have forged documents relating to an asylum seeker who was about to be deported. It could have cost the man…

By Admin7th October 20130Asylum, Campaigns, Migration

Syrian Refugees Protest at Calais

As more and more people flee the war in Syria, a small number of refugees have managed to reach Europe, seeking sanctuary. Around 65 Syrian refugees are staging a blockade of the Calais…

By Admin15th July 20130Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

After Jimmy Mubenga unlawful killing verdict: Could asylum seekers have a worse landlord than G4S?

Our campaign against G4S housing people seeking asylum began in January 2012 when a Zimbabwean member of SYMAAG said: “I don’t want a prison guard as my landlord”. Jimmy Mubenga’s inquest recently returned a verdict of…

By Admin25th June 20130Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield

March for “Dignity Not Destitution” June 29th

On Saturday 29th June a number of marches and events are planned around England, Wales and Scotland to call for “Dignity Not Destitution” for people seeking asylum as part of Refugee Week. Sheffield march details are: Meet:…

By Admin25th June 20130Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S Called to Account Over Asylum Housing Disaster

G4S and Serco executives are having to account for their abuse of asylum seekers (and the tax payer) for their disastrous provision of asylum housing as part of the COMPASS contract. They were summoned to…

By Admin11th June 20130Asylum, Campaigns, General, Sheffield

Sheffield Asylum Organisations Campaign For Human Rights in Sri Lanka

After hearing a powerful and emotional account from a woman seeking asylum from Sri Lanka, three South Yorkshire bodies concerned with asylum seekers – ASSIST, Northern Refugee Centre (NRC), and the South Yorkshire…

By Admin8th May 20130Asylum, Sheffield

Sheffield Council Takes Stand Against Asylum Destitution

It is now some ten years since the Government started to use destitution as a weapon in its efforts to persuade refused asylum seekers to leave this country. It was the shock of this…

By Admin8th May 20130Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

COMPASS Asylum Housing Contracts: “Crude Price Cutting”. 2 Investigations Underway

The disastrous COMPASS asylum housing contracts, including the regions contracted to G4S, are being investigated by Home Affairs Committee’s Inquiry into Asylum. Confirmation that “scrutiny of the COMPASS contract will certainly form part of our…

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